Laboratory of Plant Production Systems
The vision of Plant Production Systems is to integrate biological knowledge to analyse and design sustainable production systems for crops (including integration with livestock), focused on resource use efficiency and equitable management of natural resources.
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Publication of the Month
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems
There is a need for participatory methods that simultaneously assess agricultural sustainability and resilience at farming
system level, as resilience is needed to deal with shocks and stresses on the pathways to more sustainable systems. We present the
Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Resilient FARMing systems (FoPIA-SURE-Farm). FoPIA-SUREFarm investigates farming system functioning, dynamics of main indicators, and specifies resilience for different resilience capacities, i.e., robustness, adaptability, and transformability...
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Surviving on Half a Hectare of Land: An Introduction to the Issues Surrounding Smallholder Farming in Malawi
Not everyone dealing with agricultural issues in Malawi appreciates the fact that smallholders in this country face challenges which are unique in Africa. No other country in Sub-Saharan Africa has population densities of up to 250 ...
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Modelling biodiversity responses to land use in areas of cocoa cultivation
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 324 (2022). - ISSN 0167-8809 -
Monitoring soil organic matter on grassland farms : An exploratory analysis
Geoderma 405 (2022). - ISSN 0016-7061 -
Usage and impacts of technologies and management practices in ethiopian smallholder maize production
Agriculture 11 (2021)10. - ISSN 2077-0472